Chapter Twenty-Nine: Playing with the Kirin
The sound of gongs and drums came from far and near, and Li Feihu knew that it was the person who "played the unicorn" who came, so he hurriedly pasted the couplet and waited to see the excitement, and the anger just now was thrown out of the clouds.
After a while, two people carried the unicorn to the gate, followed by four people who beat gongs and drums, and the leader was called Acupoint.
The unicorn is made of thin branches tied to the skeleton, filled with hay in the middle, and pasted with multicolored paper.
It is shaped like a deer, with horns on its head, scales all over its body, and a tail, and is an animal that symbolizes auspiciousness in ancient legends.
The acupuncture head must have a flexible mind, and can sing a few auspicious words when he sees anything.
No, as soon as he saw the mules and horses tied in the yard of Li Feihu's house, he took the lead in singing:
"A dozen gongs and drums are lined up,
The mules and horses in the courtyard are all wealth.
Today the gold comes to the silver,
Dou Da ingots roll in......"
"Okay! One more time!" Li Feihu shouted loudly.
"Great," Li Deyin, who was watching from the sidelines, shouted, "Don't give them money! What they say is all lies!"
"What did you say?"
"They sing, 'Carry gold and silver', where did they get so much gold and silver?"
"Your eldest brother's name is Dejin, and your name is Deyin, isn't it gold and silver?"
"And 'Dou Da Ingot Roll In' is also a curse on my family! Such a big ingot rolls in, what if someone is stoned to death?"
"You little beheader!" Li Feihu blurted out.
After saying that, he realized that it was Chinese New Year's Eve, and he couldn't say these unlucky words, so he quickly spat on the ground: "Bah, Tong Yan Wuji!"
As he spoke, Li Feihu raised his arm and hit Li Deyin: "Lao Tzu spends money to make you read and write, you are good, you won't be able to speak in the New Year." ”
"Great," Li Deyin shouted as he ran away, "That's how Second Master Mu taught us! He also said that the house we live in is full of pieces, and there are no big ingots at all, those are all deceptive nonsense!"
"Cool? Of course it's cool in the winter now. Li Feihu said with a smile.
"It's not 'cool', it's a lot of accumulation, it means that the house is simple. Great, the second master taught like this: 'Where the emperor lives, the king looks down on it, and his palace is like a lot of accumulation. ’
He also said that he would check our endorsement after the New Year!" Li Deyin shouted loudly as he turned his head and looked back, accidentally tripping and falling.
"What kind of bullshit article are you reading? This 'Gong Yuan' is making people have diarrhea! What kind of thing is your second master's private school teaching? I think ...... cough cough cough ......"
Li Feihu roared, wanting to chase Li Deyin, but as soon as he opened his legs, he kept coughing.
The acupoint walked up to Li Deyin and said, "Young master, you said that our singing words are not good, so can you say a few words yourself?"
"That's okay!" Li Deyin sang excitedly in the tune of the acupuncture point, "As soon as the gongs and drums are beaten, you will get ten million taels of gold and silver." Douda ingots are mythical, one money and one day or two days to enjoy. ”
"Good!" the acupoint took the lead in clapping.
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Since he contracted the vice of eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, Li Feihu's body and bones have gradually been hollowed out. Because of the severe cough, he had to spend a lot of money to seek medical advice.
After being treated by an old Chinese medicine doctor in Huaguo Mountain, Li Feihu's symptoms gradually eased. But in this way, Li Feihu's family situation is becoming more and more embarrassing.
The old Chinese medicine doctor repeatedly warned Li Feihu to get rid of his bad habits and not to work too hard, otherwise his condition would continue to deteriorate.
The smart and clever Li Deyin followed the acupoint and the master for a month and a half around the Chinese New Year, and soon learned the craft, where is the heart to study?
The year after Li Zhangnan was killed, the imperial examination system was abolished. Li Feihu also thought that there was no interest in studying, so he asked Li Deyin and Li Dejin to work alone, and went to the village to play unicorn to earn money during the New Year's holidays.
Lee Deok-seok has loved to play with Lee Deok-kin since he was five years old, and the two of them also learned a lot of the rhetoric they sang when playing with the unicorn from their brothers.
Li Dalong was worried that Li Dexi and Li Dejin playing together would cause Li Feihu to be unhappy, so he often warned his three children that they were not allowed to mix with the four Li Dejin brothers.
But these reprimands were nothing more than a deaf ear to the children, and as soon as the adults were not around, they sneaked out.
After a long time, Li Dalong turned a blind eye and went with them.
Li Feihu, who does business on the street, has come into contact with many people. As time passed, he heard a lot of gossip about Li Dalong and Wu Pandi.
Especially seeing that Li Dexi and Li Dejin looked more and more alike, Li Feihu felt more and more uncomfortable in his heart, and he couldn't help venting his lust at Wu Pandi.
Li Feihu no longer often does not return home for months as before, but tries to go out early and return late.
Whenever he heard that Li Feihu scolded Wu Pandi and Li Dexi every once in a while, Li Dalong would be so angry that he gritted his teeth, but he swore in front of his father's coffin, and Guan Erlin's original prophecy, so that he didn't dare to easily cross the thunder pool by half a step.
In the winter when Li Dejin and Li Dexi were six years old, the two children were even more unscrupulous and often sticky together, and they also hung themselves with hooks, swearing that they would "cut off their heads and not change them", and planned to wait until the Chinese New Year to play unicorn like their brothers to earn money!
So, Li Dexi often took advantage of the gap between the adults leaving the shop to secretly take the colored paper in the shop to a nearby deserted temple, and learned to tie the unicorn with Li Dejin.
Although the manual work of tying a unicorn is not too simple, it is not difficult for them. However, this playing with a unicorn is a very heavy work, and it also requires lip service, which can be done by a six-year-old child?